"Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything."

"He who is not a good servant will not be a good master."

"The greatest wealth is to live content with little."

"In Timaeus, Plato quipped that men who were cowardly and unjust in this life would certainly come back as women in the next."

"The soul takes flight to the world that is invisible but eternal and there she is at rest, and has escaped from the wanderings and follies of men, and is ever with the gods, as becomes her who is divi…"